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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 26414
Released: September 5, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st Century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human.The story of Blade Runner is familiar to countless fans. But few have seen it like this. Because this is director Ridley Scott's own vision of his sci-fi classic. This new version omits Deckard's voice narration develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachael (Sean Young) and removes the "uplifting" finale. The result is a heightened emotional impact: a great film made greater. Most intriguing of all is a newly included unicorn vision that suggests that Deckard may be a humanoid. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Is Deckard a replicant? As with all things in the future you must discover the answer yourself.Running Time: 116 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY UPC: 012569837799 Manufacturer No: 83779
Description of Blade Runner - The Director's Cut (Remastered Limited Edition):
When Ridley Scott's cut of Blade Runner was finally released in 1993, one had to wonder why the studio hadn't done it right the first time--11 years earlier. This version is so much better, mostly because of what's been eliminated (the ludicrous and redundant voice-over narration and the phony happy ending) rather than what's been added (a bit more character development and a brief unicorn dream). Star Harrison Ford originally recorded the narration under duress at the insistence of Warner Bros. executives who thought the story needed further "explanation"; he later confessed that he thought if he did it badly they wouldn't use it. (Moral: Never overestimate the taste of movie executives.) The movie's spectacular futuristic vision of Los Angeles--a perpetually dark and rainy metropolis that's the nightmare antithesis of "Sunny Southern California"--is still its most seductive feature, an otherworldly atmosphere in which you can immerse yourself. The movie's shadowy visual style, along with its classic private-detective/murder-mystery plot line (with Ford on the trail of a murderous android, or "replicant"), makes Blade Runner one of the few science fiction pictures to legitimately claim a place in the film noir tradition. And, as in the best noir, the sleuth discovers a whole lot more (about himself and the people he encounters) than he anticipates.... With Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer, and M. Emmet Walsh. --Jim Emerson
Blade Runner - The Director's Cut (Remastered Limited Edition) Reviews:
I do not agree with the director 
2009-07-27 - I first saw this movie on VHS in 1982 and was totally blown away with such a daring futuristic movie, for me the voice over of Harrison Ford told the underlining story, it was very important in my opinion. Without his comentary how the heck would you know about ("gutter talk a mish mash of english spanish german what have you?") Deckard explains this, other wise how could he be a blade runner and not know the city speak? In the directors cut you have no idea what the heck is going on, as friends virgin veiwers I have tested this with close friends, all prefer the original version! Need I say more Ridley? Ok the trees at the very end are a bit lame but without the commentary the film is lost on so many people in my humble opinion.
Classic movie 
2009-06-30 - I loved the move. Just a little skip in the middle.
Wish it didn't have that.
"I never get tired of this one"!! 
2009-03-21 - "When I first saw this movie, I hated it! As time went by, (and I got older...lol) I see that I was missing something...A classic movie that tells the future, the way it can be, without going too far! Blade Runner is terrific"!!
An incredibly beautiful-looking film as one would expect with director Ridley Scott... 
2009-01-19 - But it's almost like an art movie, the first science-fiction art film... It's a futuristic film beautifully put together... It's really impeccably made by one of the great visionary directors... And you really saw a future that looked very different from the future you had seen before... A future that looked very believable like the visual-effects shots of the flying car going over a futuristic city... The fight sequence doesn't prepare you for the traumatic emotional side that there is in the film, it leaves you sort of broken...
There is a beautiful, delicate emotional great scene that I remember when I first saw the movie... I'm in the theater and I'm so drawn in what Rutger Hauer's doing... I'm so drawn in by what the theme of the movie has brought us to... The magnificent moment where he is letting go of life... And in those last moments of letting go of life he's really learned to appreciate life to the point where he spares Deckard's life, and where he's even holding a white dove because he just wants to have something that's alive in his hands... It's an amazing sort of crescendo that's going and there's Rutger saying: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain." Hauer puts all the things that are so amazing about people: sense of poetry, sense of humor, sense of sexuality, sense of the kid, sense of soul...
Scott brought out the best qualities in his performers... He coaxed and very gently manipulated performances from his actors that in some instances I think they've rarely topped... You feel the story, you feel the emotions of the characters and you will be lost in the middle of this wild world, you know, it's so rich and it's painful... I mean it's a very bluesy, dark story and told very compassionately...
The overpopulation, the sort of crowd scenes is so rich and varied and there's such an extreme detail designing the magazine covers, designing the look of the punks, the Hare Krishnas, the biological salesman, everything is designed... You have just Piccadilly Circus punks walking by... You have a sense of layers in that society... That is one of those things that you see again and again... The city landscape with the big billboards à la Kyoto or Tokyo... Scott was able to create the look based on what goes on in various cities all over the world... Whether it is Tokyo, Kyoto or Beijing or Hong Kong or whatever, you're right in "Blade Runner" country...
"Blade Runner," to me, embodies the elegance, the power, and the uniqueness of a film experience... It's the most classical, beautiful, purest movie-making writing and then the film-making itself is... The images and the sound and the music, it's pure cinema... Ridley came out with an amazing, brilliantly executed future of an absolute dystopia... The intensity of his perfectionism on "Blade Runner" made the movie... This is a master at his best...
Blade Runner - Director's Cut
2009-01-06 - I was pleased with this purchase. I received a prompt email with information about delivery. The CD was delivered exactly as stated
with no problem. I am happy with the way this worked. Linda
